Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, from Leicester, the sole survivor, who was sitting in seat 11A, told the Hindustan Times: “ Thirty seconds after take-off, there was a loud noise and then the plane crashed. It all happened so quickly.”

Ahmedabad: 'Thrust not achieved,' 'falling,' 'communication line during this transmission very weak' and finally, 'Mayday,' these chilling final messages from the Air India pilot to Ahmedabad’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) are painting a clearer picture of the moments leading up to Thursday's deadly crash of Flight AI171.

Vishwash Kumar Ramesh was the sole survivor of the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad, Western India, yesterday.

A LUCKY man who survived a fatal plane crash has revealed he was sat in the same seat as the Brit sole survivor in the Air India disaster. Ruangsak Loychusak was onboard the Thai Airways flight